All Usb Sticks are soooooo slow

[starfly]

Sitting here around with my 2 Usb Sticks... Want to Copy 200Mb on it...40 Minutes to wait...

I dont know what to do anymore...in the past there were solutions like deactivating sycing etc.
but now i dont want to accept it any more.

My Hardware is 2 Usb 2.0 Sticks and Usb 2.0 on my Toschiba book from Spring 2009.

Aftrer 2 Minutes the rate is at 50Kbs , still going down... In widows at university sticks work with 11MB per second... so its an ubutu Problem, or linux at all... because in Fedora sticks only work with 1,5 Mb...

Old Tricks like, deactivate sync in fstab dont work anymore, because sync isnt in it anymore...deactivating old uhci modules. etc. doesnt work too, because those modules are not there any more..

PLEASE POWER UP MY DRIVES

[starfly]

no one an idea ?i dont think iam the only one with that problem...

[kmitnick]

can you post the output of

/etc/fstab

[kmitnick]

of before that try this out

right click on the device icon on the desktop, select "Preferences", select the "Mounting" tab, and uncheck "Synchronous". This setting seems to stick for future mounts of the device.

[starfly]

Okay, Stick is Plugged in :

1: Fstab :

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4fa6ff3c-1f15-4322-9abd-27c2d5005d84 / ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /HDD2 was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=efd93c99-974e-41dd-8333-f66cd47f75c7 /HDD2 ext3 relatime 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=1534d6a6-ce2b-4023-87da-c8278882f82c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

In Fstab isnt an entry 4 That Stick.


2. Method :

Theres no Option like "mount" etc. even theres no option to change anythin about the stick...
Never had those ones...Thats the Problem, i never find sth. in my system about the old sysnc. options... And up to that settings, the stick stays slow for 1,5 years....



And thaths the Problem, all the "old tricks" dont work anymore, and now its horrible to work with linux and Usb Sticks... I

In the attachment u See the Volume Tab, its in German, but the main things u can read and understand

[kmitnick]

I am not sure if this is gonna work but let's give a shot.

press Alt+F2 then type gnome-terminal
Edited:BEFORE RUNNING THIS POST THE OUTOUT OF

ls /dev | grep sd

DO NOT RUN THIS NOW

sudo nano /etc/fstab

add this line to the end of it Assuming your flash device is /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb1 /media/disk vfat user,auto,sync 0 0

press Ctrl+X and then type y and press enter and plug the usb stick in.

waiting for your reply

[starfly]

root@LinuxOS:~# ls /dev | grep sd
sda
sda1
sda2
sda5
sda6
sdb
sdb1

OKay done, i think your mainidea was to override automatic, and made it manual in the fstab.,..

With sync option : 25Kb /s, without 128Kb /s falling to 50Kb /s

that isnt a solution

Tested in Windows on the Pc of my Colleque, 8Mb/s stick one (our test stick here)
the Toshiba stick 11Mb/s...

[kmitnick]

do you have the same speed if you mount the device manually with root previliges???

first unmount
then

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk

[starfly]

iam root, so yes previleges are given

[kmitnick]

so is it faster ??
and you have root privs. but can't use them unless you type the sudo before the command, no one under ubuntu can enter as root unless using sudo or su - commands,
btw try async instead of sync then type mount -a Note:do not remove usb flash until you unmount it first
good luck